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William Shakespeare
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 339.... Ben Johnson
His Life in the Theatre
-considered to be the greatest dramatist in the world
-only the Bible is read more than Shakespeare's plays
-from 1593 - 1613 he wrote 37 plays, acted, helped manage an acting troup and was part owner of the "Old Globe Theatre"
-1593-1594 the theatres were closed because of the plague and Shakespeare wrote his narrative poetry
-little is known about Shakespeare because he did not write about himself, nor did he publish his own plays, he made his money by writing plays that were performed for an audience
-his first play was The Comedy of .....
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Oscar Wilde
Number of pages: 5 | Number of words: 1256.... aesthetic
movement's notions of "art for art's sake" and dedicating one's life to art
suitable to his temperament and talents. As an aesthete, Wilde wore long hair
and velvet knee breeches, and became known for his eccentricity as well as his
academic ability. His rooms were filled with various objets d'art such as
sunflowers, peacock feathers, and blue china. Wilde frequently confided that
his greatest challenge at University was learning to live up to the perfection
of the china. Wilde won numerous academic prizes while studying there,
including the Newdigate Prize, a .....
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Cardinal Joseph Bernardin
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 403.... Paul VI appointed Msgr. Bernardin Auxiliary Bishop
of Atlanta. In doing this he became the youngest Bishop in the county. On July
10,1982, Pope John Paul II reappointed Archbishop Bernardin to Archbishop of
Chicago. His installation took at Holy Name Cathedral on August 25,1982. Later
Archbishop Bernardin went to the College of Cardinals. On February 2,1983 he
received his "red hat."
On September 9,1996 President Clinton awarded Cardinal Bernardin the
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In presenting the Metal, the President cited
Cardinal Bernardin's work on behalf of rac .....
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George Wallace
Number of pages: 6 | Number of words: 1456.... Wallace took full advantage of this ploy to gain political attention.
George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University .....
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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Number of pages: 4 | Number of words: 1053.... It took more than whips, hoses, sticks, and segregation to keep
Black America down. The government kicked them off the high horse
to the ground, and as a Black Nation we jumped back on the saddle and
rode on to victory.
Dr. King started with the Civil Rights Movement, and from there
he kept on going. This movement started with a phone call about Rosa
Parks being arrested for not surrendering her seat to a white bus rider.
King and other leaders felt that a protest of some kind was needed. A
meeting in the community was called, they agreed that the only way to
fig .....
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Ernest Miller Hemingway
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 489.... behave properly and to please her, always.
Mrs. Hemingway treated Ernest, when he was a small boy, as if he were a female baby doll and she dressed him accordingly. This arrangement was alright until Ernest got to the age when he wanted to be a "gun-toting Pawnee Bill". He began, at that time, to pull away from his mother, and never forgave her for his humiliation.
The town of Oak Park, where Ernest grew up, was very old fashioned and quite religious. The townspeople forbad the word "virgin" from appearing in school books, and the word "breast" was questioned, though .....
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Similarities Of Bradstreet And Wheatly
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 483.... These poems were discovered by her brother-in-law,
John Woodbridge, who published them without her knowing.
Phyllis Wheatly may have lived a very short life, but her
accomplishments are still appreciated today. She was a slave brought over
from Africa, at a young age. She was purchased by the Wheatley's, who
taught her English and Latin. She used this knowledge to read the Bible
and other poets works. She had one book of poetry published. In these
poems, she used the tools of Latin vocabulary, inversions, and her
religious beliefs. After her master died, she bec .....
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Jane Addams
Number of pages: 2 | Number of words: 298.... Nobel Peace Prize with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford College. She began the Study of medicine but her health broke down, and for two years she was an invalid. During several years of unhappy indecision she found her purpose when she visited Toynbee Hall, a social settlement in London. In 1889 and Ellen Gates Starr moved into the Hull House mansion, located in one of the worst slum communities of Chicago.
The two women held classes for immigrates, tended the sick, cared for babies, and p .....
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